Inmates at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite are finding purpose through creating braille books for kids.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, was pronounced dead at 10:11 a.m. Thursday, June 12, at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Oklahoma has executed death row inmate John Hanson for the 1999 carjacking and murder of a 77-year-old woman and an innocent bystander.

John Fitzgerald Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was ...

Hanson and another man kidnapped a woman from a Tulsa shopping mall and killed her at a secluded dirt pit in Owasso.

A 61-year-old man convicted of a 1999 double murder was executed on Thursday in Oklahoma, the third inmate put to death in ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has officially entered an agreement to purchase the Lawton Correctional Facility from The GEO Group. ODOC will assume operational control on July ...

An Oklahoma appeals court on Wednesday ordered a stay of execution to be lifted for a man on death row, clearing the way for ...

A judge granted a temporary stay of execution for Oklahoma death row inmate John Fitzgerald Hanson ahead of his previously ...

Background: In April 2025, Ashlynd Huffman, a reporter for The Frontier, submitted an open records request to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections seeking reports on the death of an inmate and other ...

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – ...

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections will spend about $74 million over two years to outsource its food service operations ...